Scott Lapatine

Last night the Cure headlined Primavera Sound 2026 at Barcelona’s Parc Del Forum. It was the band’s first performance since their intimate November 2024 show at London’s Troxy celebrating the release of Songs Of A Lost World. That album, one of the best of that year, was the Cure’s first UK #1 in 32 years…

Jack White has again announced a new album without actually announcing it. The second and final installment of Third Man Records’ new Release Lab video series — ostensibly an educational deep dive into release strategies and the “mechanics of the music industry” — contains news of White’s seventh solo album. The video released early today…

Earlier this week you may have seen headlines about a fake Angine de Poitrine supposedly “touring Russia.” The claim traces back to a recent Exclaim! feature about the Québécois math rock sensations, who have garnered considerable attention for their adventurous music, outlandish papier-mâché masks, and excessively black-and-white polka-dotted visual identity. (Despite compelling evidence unearthed by…

Due to lightning and rain in Manchester, TN today, the festival canceled sets by Nat Myers, Little Stranger, Buffalo Traffic Jam, Girl Tones, MOTIFV, Aly & AJ, Spacey Jane, Hemlocke Springs, Blondshell, A Hundred Drums, and Trombone Shorty.

Gordi, a 2016 Stereogum Artist To Watch, debuted new songs at shows in her native Australia this past autumn — Australian autumn, meaning March through May — and sold them as a tour-exclusive EP titled Nylon . The copies sold out entirely, and the strength of those sales on that five-week tour led the EP's #3 debut on AIR's 100% Independent Singles chart in late May, meaning it charted before its formal release or any online announcement.

Oakland, CA's Mosswood Meltdown has expanded to a three-day event for 2026, and last night it kicked off with a Pre-Party featuring Christina's Trip, Memo PST, Vivian Girls, Wednesday, and headliners Pavement. It was the '90s indie icons' first show since November, so we're now in year six of their their second reunion era.

Jennifer Finch of L7 has died. The musician joined the Los Angeles rock band in 1986 as bassist and vocalist and played on all five of the band's original studio albums, including 1990's Smell The Magic and 1992's Bricks Are Heavy , two of the grunge era's essential and most influential albums.

Tomahawk, the noise-rock supergroup led by Faith No More/Mr. Bungle frontman Mike Patton, played their first show since 2013 last night.

Since resigning as the National Symphony Orchestra's Artistic Advisor over Donald Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center, Ben Folds has continued to advocate for the federal arts institution, which he says is in trouble. Yesterday, he testified before a bicameral congressional forum and argued that the president's overhaul has undermined the Center.

Gregg Alexander ended New Radicals after their lone album, 1998's acclaimed Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too , but went on to become one of pop's most successful behind-the-scenes songwriters. He co-wrote hits like Sophie Ellis-Bextor's "Murder On The Dancefloor," Santana and Michelle Branch's "The Game Of Love," and the Oscar-nominated Begin Again song "Lost Stars," recorded by Keira Knightley and Adam Levine. He has rarely given interviews or performed since New Radicals' 1999 tour opening for Goo Goo Dolls.